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3 Click the Allow button. The selection is shown in green. (By default, all
hours are allowed).
4 To apply the time selection to the selected Server, click OK.
To schedule hours when servers are unavailable:
1 In Queue Monitor's Server list, right-click a Server and choose Week
Schedule, or select a Server and choose Servers menu > Week Schedule.
2 In the dialog that appears, select a time using one of the following
methods:
■ Select a one-hour block for network rendering by clicking one of the
top buttons.
■ Select an entire day by clicking a side button.
■ Select the entire week by clicking the large top-left button.
The selection is shown in white.
3 Click the Disallow button. The selection is shown in red.
4 To apply the time selection to the selected Server, click OK.
Batch Rendering
“Batch rendering” is a term used to describe the process of rendering a series
of tasks or jobs that have been assigned to a queue. Batch rendering is useful
when you need to render images without supervision or when you want to
render a number of test studies showing different day or night lighting, or for
producing shadow studies of various sun angles. Batch rendering can also be
used when you want to see how your project looks from different camera
viewpoints.
Several methods for setting up batch rendering are available in 3ds Max. These
methods entail using the
Batch Render tool on page 6352 or network rendering
on page 6231 with Backburner, or a combination of the two.
The three available methods for setting up batch rendering are as follows:
■ Build a queue of camera tasks that are managed by the Batch Render tool.
If you have a MAX file that contains one or more cameras and saved
scene
states
on page 7185 , you can set up a camera queue to render different camera
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